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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 9

MIRIAM AND ALAN: LOST IN SCOTLAND AND BEYOND

The laddie and lady in the van

Screening: Living, 7.30pm

The bed and breakfasts of Scotland must still be offering discounts to television crews tagging along with famous folk pretending to be odd-couple tourists holding up local traffic in their campervans. This is the second series with Alan Cumming and Miriam Margolyes doing just that. But they soon run out of Scotland and the episodes detour to the US West Coast on a trip ending up in Las Vegas where, they are piloting a bigger RV down the freeway. The American places of interest

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